Let's See if we can rally the Wakeboarders here on WW can get be hind this ,Write your assemblyman around the County,,,We're the one who ride the Lakes and Rivers,nothing cooler than seeing a pile of butt ,in the middle of nowhere,because a smoker didn;t want the butts in the boat

Just read a report, 1 billion people now smoke, at 20 a day, thats 20,000,000,000 butts being discarded, A DAY mostly on the ground or in the water if we recycle them @ 2 cents a butt,thats a $400,000,000 bizzz a day,,,$400,000,000 a DAY ,,, any one Need work???Brand New Industry recycling butts

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Assemblyman wants to see cigarette butt litter go up in smoke

I totally agree with the idea of making filtered cigs illegal. They can sell separate non-disposable cigarette holders with disposable filters for people who don't care if they look like they are from the 50's. That way they won't casually just toss the filters on the ground without giving it a thought. Make it so the holder needs to be disassembled to change the filter. No quick ejection.

I hate cigarettes and all the people who throw them everywhere. Yesterday morning before the sun came up on the freeway 280 all dry grass and hills I saw some **** throw one out the window and I wanted to run him off the road. Huge drought in a country setting for a high fire danger.

Hate Pain Too ,I'll see a guy with a big plastic bag full of cans at 5 cents apiece ,digging though a dirty a$$ trash can for Cans,You can carry more butts @ 2cents a piece,than you can carry Cans@ 5 cents apiece
All you have to do is look on the ground,there alllllllll over the place,,,LOOK for yourself

Heres a better idea, from this point on, create a designation on the cigarette that it has a crv attached like a red band around the butt and charge $.50 per cigarette up front. thats an extra $10 when you buy the pack, but you get back when you return all your butts. The red band will avoid a huge windfall of people turning in old butts for money, but will keep the streets clean in the furture. people will not care if the sum is too small, i think most people wouldnt care about throwing $.02 out the window, but you better believe they would think twice about $.50

If the manufacturers of cigarettes would stop putting in crap like arsenic, ammonia, and benzine you wouldn't need the filters in the first place. Before they started doing that and making filters to "make the smoke safer" somehow people smoked for years and years with pure dried leaf tobacco.
I mean seriously, how many people have actual cigars that are filtered? I'm not talking about little cigarillos or anything, but actual cigars. Natural tobacco wrapped in tobacco leaf. I'd want to guess none.
But then again we know that big tobacco is about making money and anything they can do to help them do that by making them more addictive and stretching their product thinner they will do.
I agree about making a butt deposit like they do with cans and bottles. Make them pay up front. If they litter they pay more. If they are clean and don't wreck the environment they don't. The money collected from the unclaimed deposits would then be used for environmental clean up projects.

I think almost every state would consider a butt out the window as littering. when was the last time a ticket was written. start a nationwide campaign and you will put money in city coffers for a short time until the word gets around and problem solved. use singapore as a study. litter and it's punishment. litter here and 1/2 the people around you don't care.

I thought it said packs ,,,Your Sooo right
293,000,000,000,,,thats a lot a butts still for 0ne year,that would be $11,920,000,000 a year bizz
ya i can't spell ,but my math is right on
your right 1/2 the people don't care ,,,But 1/2 the People DO CARE
you going to let the pigs run your hood???

I honestly think its a great idea.
its only a CRV so the government wouldn't be spending money on this besides setting up recycling centers to receive the butts. I don't know if they are recyclable, but at least they would be properly disposed of.

At 2 cents a butt it wont upset smokers too much (any bottled drink in California has a 5 cent CRV already). 2 cents might not be enough for smokers to stop litter all together, but it will get the homeless to help clean up even more. Cigarette butts are disgusting and every where. I would love to see them gone.

or just charge something completely insane say 20 or 50 bucks per cigarette as a deposit. Now not only do you have to have 400-1k saved upfront to purchase that. you also pay it for each butt you dont return and when you decide to quit smoking you get a 1k dollar bonus of your own money back. and to start again you have to make a 1k dollar decision is it worth it. no one throws 50 bucks out the window. and if they do the market for picking them up to return would be huge. plus this will make people quit smoking

Boarder 42, people would start getting stabbed for cigarette butts if that was the case haha.
But maybe the added danger of smoking would cause people to quit... Actually nevermind. Smokers are already cool with dying from cancer, heart disease, and emphysema so they probably wouldn't be cared about being robbed at knife or gun point for cigarette butts.